To fill jobs in sectors experiencing local labor shortages, some countries—including Canada, New Zealand, South Korea, and the United States—offer closed-visa programs that tie foreign workers to a ...

Hiring is, more and more, dominated by artificial intelligence. Standard AI-powered tools can sift through résumés, saving companies time and resources. Newer AI voice agents can also collect ...

Anna Marks (right) joins Chicago Booth’s Chris Lecatsas-Lyus for a fireside chat with EMBA students at the Robert Rothman, ’77, London Campus. Thriving—not just surviving—in an era of relentless ...

The Stigler Center is dedicated to promoting the power of markets to enhance human welfare. We confront conventional thinking and investigate the obstacles preventing markets from being truly ...

Within months of COVID-19’s first emergence in China, the World Health Organization admitted it was battling, alongside the pandemic, something nearly as dangerous and certainly as complicated: a ...

Back in 2020, New York Times reporter Kashmir Hill wrote about an experiment she conducted for the news site Gizmodo the year before to see how hard it would be to disconnect from Big Tech—Amazon, ...

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Hollywood mogul David Geffen enraged many social media users when he posted a photo of his yacht, Rising Sun, on calm waters. “Isolated in the Grenadines ...

A 70-year-old woman goes to the pharmacy to pick up medication for her arthritis. How much should that cost her? Maybe $5 for the prescription? Or $20? Or should it be free? There’s surely a lot going ...

Since the Great Recession, America’s wealthiest 1 percent have been demonized as fat cats who have grown ever richer while the middle class has stagnated. While protesters have called for the 1 ...

Sometimes it’s easy on an earnings call to spot the metrics that portend good or bad things for a company. Revenues were unexpectedly high. Operating costs have doubled. But what does it mean when a ...

Walk down the aisles of any US convenience store and you could easily feel assailed by rows of similar—yet different—products competing for attention. Bags of Tostitos Scoops! tortilla chips share ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...